, 1887-07-28
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD.
HIS ARRIVAL IN LONDON, THE
WORLDS METROPOLIS.

\ Letter Wherein Are Narrated the Ex-
periemces of the Jedge and Mandy on
the Trip to the Big City Through
DevonsIlire from the South of England.
Special Correspondence
We cot away from Penzance safe and went
back 10 Plymouth to stay all night, SOS we
could come up to London in daylight and see
the country.
TheI was one thing l noticed in Plymouth
that forgot to speak about, and that was
hai.it the mayors of the place has fell into,
namely to wit-the erection of various me
m,rial statutes i'll honor of their mayorGlity.
Fer instance, one has built q big tower in an
open place, III front of some public building,
with a clock set up nigh the top Of it, which
he tends to at his own expense; another one
has built i fancy gateway to the park, and
name,i it after himself, and l reckon others
was guilty of the same weaknesses, though
they did not come under my immediate eye
sight. While we was discussing these evi-
denccs of the vanity of statesmen Mandy
surprised me by suggesting that l ought to
do something of the sort in Wayback. .
We'll, Mandy" l says to her, IF you Will
tell me how a congressman on s., 900 year is
/ going to pay $1,000 to get elected and keep
himself and family on the balance, I'll try
1 and squeeze out monument fund"
She couldn't do it, of course, and that's one
of the reasons am forever feminist women
| fOOImg with politics. They always figger on
| what an office pays, without thinking about
what has TO be paid to get hold of it.
/ We left Plymouth i'll the morning for LON
! don. taking second class tickets, because the
first class hotel we had stopped at had run our
! treasury surplus down TO a war basis, and,
] L.si. Ia ic oil nc first
| class These doggoned compartment cars are
! a nuisance any way they can be fixed up, and
| if 1t wasn't for the sake of time and Mandy
| I'd a long sight rather walk If we had them
| in America they would be the cause of start
| ing new political party inside of sixty days
| They amt nothing but the English social
! system on wheels. The nobS ride first class,
| the middlings take second, and the masses go
| third. The masses i'll America dominate the
| ballot box, and a candidate that would dare
| to put on style and not go third class would
be scoOped on the first deal. 4
! 49,
| l was amused on our way up by young
American, who had the English so bad that it
was breaking out all over him, and showing
| clean through his clothes. He was in our ca
bOose, and there was also Sir Somebody, and
they got TO talking listened till heard the
!
of the United States, and then I subSided and
began to talk scenery to Mandy. I knowed
| the young fellow first rate and had talked on
the subject of English aristocracy with him
| till | was posted on his weakness, and when
| the Sir left the cars / turned on him:
| Now l says to him, 'you are always
| talking about the education and superiority
of these titled Englishmen; what do you think
of this one, with son married to an Ameri-
can, too, as he says, who don't even know
| who is the president Of the United States, the
greatest and the grandeSt republic on Gods
green earth"
That's nothing, Whatever" he stated in re-
ply, Ill q Scorny tone OF voice. English gen.
tlemen have something else to think about be-
sides n country which they consider only q
fourth class power, if they consider it at all
There are other things Of much more I'M
portance to them"
"They didn't seem to think SO in 1776 and in
1872" says to him, billing hot; "but that's
got nothing to do with this case. What say
is that an educated Englishman that don't
know who the president of the United States
is is the same kind of an EngliShman that an
American IS an American who defends the
Englshman's ignorance"
This kind of settled him, but give him an
other when we got to London. There he
pointed out a cab with coat of arms on it
and said it belonged, with hundreds more
like it, to some duke or other.
"Does itl' asst. "Well, will you tell me
whats the difference between a duke that gifts
an income out of hack line and is duke, and
livery stable keeper that does the same
thing and amt q duke!' That time he
turned his back on me and refused to discuss
social questions with a man who thought $50
cial" and "sociability" meant the same thing.
"a
The road from Plymouth to London runs
through Devonshire, which is much purifier
county than Cornwall ard has great deal
less stone fence than that hard deestrict. In
fact, it looked to me like we was riding
through Blue Grass Kentucky, only there was
a smell of buttermilk peryadin' the atmos-
phere, instead of Bourbon, which most con-
gressmen know more about
In every field there was herds of fine cattle
and Sheep and as far as I could see, there
wasn't an acre of land that was not taken
care OF as tenderly as if it had been baby.
If the United States farms was run like these
English farms we would raise enough farm
products and garden truck TO supply all the
known world and have surplus to ship of
to the planets. 80
On the way a man pointed out to me the
house of the late Lord Iddesleigh, states
man after my own heart, and one that stood
closeter TO the hearts of the people than any
have heard spoken of. The house is q very
plain brick one, with the farm spread out
around it, and lots of farmers in America
have better ones. He wasn't ''castellated
lord - and because he was a plain man, he
was solid with the masses. l thought as my
informant talked about the dead man till
the tears almost filled his eyes, that il when
I was gone the people talked SO of me
wouldn't want no better monument.
80
We rushed along part Of the time at fifty
miles an hour, and while don't like compart-
ment cars, nor the ugly English engines, / dc
say that their railroads are built and run in
the very best style of the art. They don't use
cross ties, though they are coming to it, but
they put their rails on continuous line OF
sleepers, bolted together with cross pieces OF
wood, the rails bolted to the sleepers. II
takes about twice along to lay track this
way and costs twice as much as our style,
but it is as slick as soap after it is done, and
a man can ride fast and not have his back
bone jeried out, and his body frescOed with
bruises as they do ON some of our roads.
H*s
| Along in the afternoon the open places be-
tween towns grew less, and we kind of felt
We we're SSILliE ileii lLlo 6ISaiI Slb1 -huiiuJ
was very quiet, and looked out at the houses
thickeniDg along the way. Going into a
strange city always makes me feel kind of
lonesome, and going into London, the biggest
one in the world, where among all its 100000
i of beating hearts not one beat responsive to
| my own, and where of its 10000, 900 eyes not
| one would he brighter by my coming, made
me feel rs if | was II wanderer on the face Of
| the EARTH a man without n country. Mandy
was the connecting link, though, and on her
depended, and we drawed closer together as
we came into the station, where we was to
make our first appearance in London. Like
cutting a mans head Off, it was soon over,
and before we had time to rc;;iize we We're in
| the city we were rattling off down town in a
shilling cab with eur baggage all fright, though
it wasn't checked, and we began to recover
| our spirits.
We found a lodging place without much
/ trouble, and when we had got into our room
Mandy looked out the window at the houses
across the street.
"Bash," says she to me, "if London is half